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'Eliminating the
low bar'
Foxx, other elected officials attend CLGF 'Happening'
by Matt Comer :: matt@goqnotes.com
With a crowd of nearly
360 guests, the Charlote
Lesbians Gay Fund
hosted their third annual
"The Happening" on May
13 at Uptown's Omni Hotel
and celebrated another
year of grant recipients.
The Fund also announced
it had met its $100,000
matching grant goal
issued by community phi
lanthropist Sandy Berlin
last year.
Charlotte Mayor
Anthony Foxx served as
keynote speaker. Foxx's
appearance marked the
first time a local elected
official had appeared at
a Fund event and the first
time a sitting Charlotte
mayor had spoken to an
LGBT group in at least a
decade.
Foxx, the city's second
African-American mayor,
said he was delighted to be at the event He
thanked the Fund and other LGBT community
members for their supportand spoke of the
city manager's recent decision to include "sex
ual orientation" in his employment policies.
Foxx thanked the county commission.
Charlotte Mayor Anthony Foxx's keynote at the Charlotte Lesbian & Gay
Fund luncheon marked the first time any elected official had attended a
Fund event and the first time a sitting Charlotte mayor had spoken to an
LGBT group in at least a decade.
including former Chair Parks Helms, for hav
ing the "courage" to make such a change
and pave the way for inclusive changes at the
city level.
"I look back at the history of this dis
cussion of a policy change that says dis
criminating against people based on sexual
orientation is wrong and I have to say that
we had more courage to help propel our city
manager to make that policy change because
of changes that had happened earlier,” Foxx
said. "A few years earlier, the county commis
sion was embroiled in a heated debate about
saying sexual orientation-based discrimina
tion is wrong. They made the right decision
and their decision created the courage for the
city to do the same."
Foxx said he'd keep working in his role to
ensure an inclusive city.
"I hope that we can eliminate the low
bar of having to feel thankful that our elected
officials would show up at a luncheon. I hope
that the bar gets set higher and that as we
move forward in this community that you feel
included and part of the community that we
will be in the 21st century in Charlotte."
Other elected officials present included
Mecklenburg County Commission Chair
Jennifer Roberts, Commissioner Dan Murrey
and City Councilmember Patsy Kinsey.
The Fund awarded $67,000 in operating
and "Community Connections" grants this
year. Fund recipients include: Campus Pride,
(3ay Men's Chorus of Charlotte, Lionel Lee
Jr. Center for Wellness, One Voice Chorus,
Time Out Youth, Charlotte Pride Band, Holy
Covenant United Church of Christ Planned
Parenthood Health Systems and Theatre
Charlotte.::
commentary
Are elected officials in the Queen City
really showing political courage on
LGBT issues? Editor Matt Comer doesn't
think so. Read his Editor's Note on page
4 for more.